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Æthelswith
Æthelswith was the daughter of King Æthelwulf of Wessex and sister of Alfred the Great. In 853 she married King Burgred of Mercia, sealing the alliance between the two kingdoms. When the Great Heathen Army drove Burgred into exile in 874 she went with him to Rome, and she died at Pavia in 888 while on pilgrimage. A gold finger ring bearing her name survives in the British Museum.
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